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A strong community of people with the passion to improve the hardware,
software, and content of the devices has grown through the <a
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/" target="_blank">OLPC Wiki</a> right
here in Rochester. The Rochester connection to the class is the <a
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester%2C_NY" target="_blank">OLPC
Users Group</a>,
led by Frederick Grose and Karlie Robinson, both of whom have been
instrumental in the development and delivery of the course and the
coops. It was the ties Robinson had to the Open Source community as
owner of <a href="http://on-disk.com/" target="_blank">On-Disk.com</a>
that initiated the program’s connections to Red Hat, <a
href="http://fedoraproject.org/" target="_blank">Fedora</a>
(who donated 25 OLPC’s to Jacob’s lab for Technological Literacy) and
Sugar Labs (the OLPC spin-off responsible for the growth and
development of the Sugar operating system). Grose and Jacobs began
working on OLPC related efforts two years ago and it was Grose who
supervised the Co-Ops and was the primary organizer of a week –long
trip to Boston to meet others in the OLPC, Sugar and Open Source
communities.<br>
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